1750-2000 Events Flashcards by Yahvi Mohite

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French Revolution begins

A

1789

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Haitian independence

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1804

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British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade

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1807

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Independence in Latin America

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1820s

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1st Opium War in China

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1839

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Tanzimat Reforms

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1839-1878

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Commodore Perry “opens” Japan

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1853

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Russian “frees” serfs / ends serfdom

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1861

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Sepoy Mutiny

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1857

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Italian unification

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1861-1870

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Suez Canal Opens

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1869

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German unification

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1871

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Berlin Conference (begins “Scramble for Africa”)

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1885

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Brazil ends slavery (last in Americas)

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1888

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Ethiopians defeat Italians at the Battle of Adowa

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1896

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Spanish-American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico)

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1898

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Boer War (British in control of S Africa

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1899-1902

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Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown)

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1910-1920 (1910)

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Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)

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1911

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World War I

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1914-1918

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Russian Revolution

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1917

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Treaty of Versailles

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1919

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New York Stock Market Crash

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1929

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German blitzkrieg in Poland (beg of WWII)

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1939

Pearl Harbor (US entry into WWII))

1941

End of WWII (Japan surrenders)

1945

Truman Doctrine

1947

Independence & partition of India

1947

Birth of Israel

1948

NATO founded

1949

Chinese Communist Revolution

1949

Korean War

1950-1953

Suez Canal Crisis (Nasser Nationalizes)

1956

Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)

1959

Berlin Wall

1961-1989

Iranian Revolution (Ayatollah Khomeini)

1979

Persian Gulf War & USSR disbands

1991

NAFTA forms

1994